--- title: When the Judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had see… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics description: When the Judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had seen certain winged creatures in the neighborhood of the hollow tree, who hummed loudly, and whose bodies were striped, yellow and black, like Bees. Who acts: Judge, Bees, hollow tree. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judge, Bees, hollow tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg19994:129:5 # text = When the Judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had seen certain winged creatures in the neighborhood of the hollow tree, who hummed loudly, and whose bodies were striped, yellow and black, like Bees. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 witnesses witness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 neighborhood neighborhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hummed hum VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 striped stripe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | the Judge *not said here* | the case and witnesses | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent case=Recipient | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Judge | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past · perfect | Bees *= bee* | certain winged creatures | | the neighborhood of the hollow tree | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | | 4 | **wing** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hum** | past | the hollow tree | | | | | loudly *property* | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 6 | **stripe** | past · passive | Bees | bodies | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/129/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/129/6/) - ↑ back to [The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/129/)